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Submission Guidelines

Empty Mirror is on hiatus and not currently accepting submissions.

Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine publishing nonfiction, poetry, and art. We publish new work every Friday and accept submissions year-round.

Empty Mirror is committed to diversity and inclusiveness.

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Empty Mirror requests First World Rights, and the right to include the work on the Empty Mirror website indefinitely.

After publication, all rights revert to the author. Copyright always remains with the author.

We ask that you wait at least one month after publication at EM before republishing the work. Should it be published elsewhere (whether in another publication or on your own website), please credit Empty Mirror with its first publication.

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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